The local_staticpage plugin is designed to fetch a static HTML document from disk, enrich it with Moodle navigation and theme and deliver it as a standard Moodle page which exists outside any course.

Static pages will be available on catchy URLs like http://www.yourmoodle.com/static/faq.html and can be linked from Moodle HTML blocks, from your Moodle theme footer and so on. Using the local_staticpages plugin, you can create information pages within moodle, but without misusing a whole course just for showing a textbox.

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Hi! May I ask how to show blocks on specific static pages instead on all of them! I can choose between 5 entries in the block configuration (local-staticpage-view, local-staticpage-view-*, local-staticpage-*, local-* and every page) but nothing is changing at all! Am I missing something? Thanks a lot in advance!

If you look at https://github.com/moodleuulm/moodle-local_staticpage/blob/master/README.md, you will read:
"If you want to include images into your static page, you have to upload them somewhere else. local_staticpage is not capable of hosting / serving image files. Linking to image files, please do yourself a favour and link to them with absolute URLs, not relative URLs."
I think this should answer your question.

Hi Georg,

sorry for the late answer.

Regarding the calendar:
On the one hand, I can't give you really good help how to add this JS calendar to a static page. I can only tell you to make sure that the static page plugin is configured to not clean the static page content because otherwise the JS code you add to a static page might be dropped. Everything else exceeds my time to support this plugin, sorry.
On the other hand, you can't add any PHP code to display the Moodle-internal calendar to a static page, sorry.

Regarding the block placement:
I am not aware which version of the plugin you are using. With the latest version of the plugin (which is the only one we support), it is possible to add a block to a static page and to configure in the block configuration to show the block on static-.html (which means only this page) or static-* (which means all static pages).

many thanks for your reply! Well, I successfully embedded the calendar in a static page, finally using an iframe and it works like a charm now!

I'm still not able to add a block only to a specific static page, using the latest version of the plugin on Moodle 3.1.2+. In the corresponding block configuration I can choose between local-staticpage-view, local-staticpage-view-*, local-staticpage-*, local-* and every page. I tried all settings but my block shows up on all static pages... Am I missing something?

Hi. I am new on Moodle and I am very interested in the Static Page plugin. Installation was easy and uploading html files went fine too. However, I am unable to see my files on the browser. I have used the path for mysite/mymoodlefolder/static/myfile.html but I only get a 404 message indicating the page was not found. I have tried every possible combination, but still no results. I wonder what I might be doing wrong.

Rama,
from my point of view, you are free to add whatever you want to the .html file as long as its valid HTML (with JS embedded if necessary). Just give it a try. I am sorry that further support is out of scope of our work for this plugin.

Hi Alex,
I had a problem finding my HTML pages (on Moodle 3.1.x)
I've used you example path: mysite/mymoodlefolder/local/staticpage/view.php?page=myfile.
It turned out that I had to skip the HTML extension and use 'myfile' instead of 'myfile.html'.
Think it could be useful to make a remark of it in you read-me file not to use html in the path to the file.
Thanks.
Hans.

How do I install this manually on local drive? Do I upload the "staticpage" folder to /mod/ directory or somewhere else?
Currently when I upload it to mod directory, it shows - "Plugins requiring attention" with the details in the screenshot here - http://imgur.com/xRj0EQ6